Weekly Wrap: Hands on with iPhone 5 and iOS 6

Apple likes to unleash an avalanche of news when it can. That might not be a strong enough Mother Nature-based analogy—it’s more like a News Tornado. No, it’s like a news tsunami—newsnami, if you will. On second thought, let’s scrap this analogy business and get down to recapping our biggest stories from a week that saw the introduction of the iPhone 5, iOS 6, Mac OS X 10.8.2, and oodles of other Apple updates.

And yes, the iPhone 5 doesn’t just ship with a new Lightning to USB plug; it also includes Apple’s new EarPods—which we reviewed this week. Luckily for Apple, we didn’t review the new headphones’ name itself: The dopey-sounding “EarPods” earns, at best, two-thirds of one mouse (also known as “mou.33333”).

iOS 6

As long as the iPhone 5’s new screen is, Dan Moren’s epic review of iOS 6 is longer still. Once you get through that review—budget roughly the time required to watch all six Star Wars films—and get iOS 6 installed, you can go more in depth with many of iOS 6’s new features and updated apps, including:

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Lex uses a MacBook Pro, an iPhone 5, an iPad mini, a Kindle 3, a TiVo HD, and a treadmill desk, and loves them all. His latest book, a children's book parody for adults, is called "The Kid in the Crib." Lex lives in New Jersey with his wife and three young kids. More by Lex Friedman